CFP: [General] The Future of Bisexuality

â€œThe Future of Bisexualityâ€A special double issue of The Journal of BisexualityEdited by Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of Cincinnati

This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality will explore thefuture of bisexualityâ€”as an identity, as a community grouping, as a flashpoint for activism, as a critical way to interrogate and understand hetero-and mono-sexualities, and as an erotic inspiration for a variety of artprojects. The editor, Dr. Jonathan Alexander, invites scholarly, personal,and experimental articles that explore what the future of bisexuality mightbe in shifting cultural, social, and political climates. Collectively,articles in this special double issue, whatever form they take, will tracehow bisexuality has emerged as a marker of identity, community, andpolitics as a way of grounding a discussion of where bisexuality may takeusâ€”and the larger cultureâ€”as an identity, a community, and a politics.Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:â€¢ How has the emergence of bisexuality in specific communities, in the massmedia, in the public sphere affected larger discourses about sex andsexuality? What are some long-term ramifications of such effects?â€¢ How do bisexuals and bisexual communities affect social spacesâ€”and howmight such spaces be changed by the presence of bi- and bi-friendly people?â€¢ What particular effectsâ€”social, ideological, politicalâ€”are made possibleby the increasing visibility of â€œBâ€ in the LGBT conglomerate? How has theLGBT community changedâ€”and how might it continue to changeâ€”because of agrowing â€œBâ€ presence?â€¢ How might increasing understandings of bisexual or bi-erotic relations inother cultures affect Western understandings and topologies of sex andsexuality?â€¢ What might future sexualities look like, and how might contemporarybisexuality impact the construction of such identities?â€¢ What does science fiction (or even science â€œfactâ€ about sex andsexuality) tell us about the future of bisexuality?

Queries should be sent to Dr. Jonathan Alexander at jamma_at_fuse.net.Proposals for articles should be submitted by March 15, 2008. Full draftsof requested articles will be due May 1, 2008.